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2 Laburnum Grove Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire AL2 3HQ

5/2025/0780HouseholderApproved

Approved on 1 July 2025

Council decision: DC3 Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) to reduce the size of the first floor side extension and chamfering of the ground floor flank wall to enhance internal space of planning permission 5/2023/1567 dated 07/12/2023 for Single storey front porch, first floor side and part single, part two storey rear extension with rooflight following demolition of detached garage and alterations to openings at 2 Laburnum Grove Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire AL2 3HQ

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Stephen
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated8 May
  3. Consult.27 Jun
  4. Target27 Jun
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 2 Laburnum Grove Chiswell Green St Albans Hertfordshire AL2 3HQ. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across St Stephen. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the AL2 postcode area.

86% of full applications at St Albans City and District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL2 3HQ
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Stephen

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 May 2025
Consultation expiry
27 June 2025
Consultation end
27 June 2025
Target decision date
27 June 2025
Application expires
2 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    7 Sep

    Non Material Amendment - Change external material of ground floor rear extension to facing brickwork, change…

    RefusedNon-material amendmentAmendment5/2026/1577
  2. 2026
    9 Jul

    Non Material Amendment to change of external material of ground floor rear extension to facing brickwork…

    RefusedNon-material amendmentAmendment5/2026/1317
  3. 2025
    16 Apr

    Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) to reduce the size of the first floor side extension and chamfering…

    This applicationDC3 Conditional PermissionVariation of conditions (s73)5/2025/0780

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